Information Exposure Affecting libcurl-devel package, versions <0:7.61.1-22.el8


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.93% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-LIBCURLDEVEL-4161454
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 31 Mar 2021

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 libcurl-devel to version 0:7.61.1-22.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:4511.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcurl-devel package and not the libcurl-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

curl 7.1.1 to and including 7.75.0 is vulnerable to an "Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor" by leaking credentials in the HTTP Referer: header. libcurl does not strip off user credentials from the URL when automatically populating the Referer: HTTP request header field in outgoing HTTP requests, and therefore risks leaking sensitive data to the server that is the target of the second HTTP request.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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Red Hat

3.7 low
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SUSE

6.1 medium